Western Standard - February 17, 2026


Western Standard News Update ｜ Rhode Island hockey shooting shocks community ｜ 17 Feb 2026

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Charles Adler Dave Naylor
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Length

1 minute

Words per minute

119.23

Word count

218

Sentence count

18

Harmful content

Toxicity

2

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Summary

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The Alberta government is set to announce it will buy five new water bombers from De Havilland, the RCMP has admitted that outside British Columbia, the force only has seven officers assigned to combat hate crimes, and a transgendered man opened fire during a youth hockey game in Rhode Island on Monday killing his wife and one of his children before turning the gun on himself.

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00:00:00.000 From the Western Standard here's your news update. I'm your host Western
00:00:09.600 Standard Chief Editor Dave Naylor and here's what you need to know. The Alberta
00:00:15.600 government is set to announce later Tuesday it will buy five new water
00:00:19.360 bombers from de Havilland. The RCMP has admitted that outside British Columbia
00:00:26.400 the force only has seven officers assigned to combat hate crimes. Liberal
00:00:33.080 Senator and former radio host Charles Adler says talk radio rewards white
00:00:37.920 bigotry and quote sewer money unquote. And a transgendered man opened fire during a 0.95
00:00:45.440 youth hockey game in Rhode Island on Monday killing his wife and one of his 0.76
00:00:49.280 children before turning the gun on himself. And that's it for now.
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